Zamalek charge Zaki with misconduct
CAIRO: Zamalek club held a hearing Monday to investigate the brawl that took place between striker Amr Zaki and football director Ayman Mansour.Zamalek enjoyed a calm morning practice session, their…
MP requests legalizing abortion for rape victims
CAIRO: Discussions of legalizing abortion for rape victims are underway, NDP MP Mohamed Khalil Kwaitah, told Daily News Egypt.Kwaitah filed a request to change Penal Code section 260 - which…
Al-Jazeera's Yosri Fouda speaks on Al-Qaeda at AUC
CAIRO: "The War on Terror is not directed in the right way. We need to know what is really happening instead of what we think are good tactics . spin…
Siwa fights for survival against deluge of water and tourists
SIWA: Gazing out from the picturesque viewing platform on Fatnis Island, my cart driver Goma'a brings me a warming cup of karkaday. The sun is setting on the horizon and…
Egypt-Germany row over Nefertiti bust cools
CAIRO: Germany is willing to consider whether an ancient Egyptian statue at the center of a row between the two countries can be returned to Cairo for display, Egypt s…
Medellin Moves to Africa
An unfamiliar country keeps popping up in press reports about drug trafficking: Guinea Bissau. This West African state of 1.5 million people is one of the poorest in the world.…
Ehud Olmert's delicate task
TORONTO: As the Annapolis peace summit looms closer, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is trying hard to make meaningful gestures to the Palestinian Authority without risking the dismemberment of his…
Europe's New Donald Rumsfeld
Russia's Duma elections this December are almost certain to cement the power of forces loyal to Vladimir Putin. That outcome is likely to confirm Russia's emergence as the most divisive…
HARD TALK: Gamal Mubarak: Who's Victim?
Nothing preoccupies broad sectors of Egypt's political and media elite more than the question of the inheritance of power by President Hosni Mubarak's son. Over the past five years there…
A trip down memory lane
Amal Choucri cut the ceremonial ribbon from a wheelchair. It was the opening of her exhibition "Down Memory Lane and she had just come from the hospital where she would…
